roots and bones

... decompose, disassemble, explore, reflect, distort, organize, accrete, substitute, synthesize, seed, play, mimic, fail, laugh, learn... all material on this blog was found elsewhere in the internet and i do not claim ownership of any of it, unless expressly stated. this blog contains gay/queer themes and if you object or are bothered by those themes you have been fairly warned and should now go elsewhere, likewise if you are under the age of consent in your area (18 in the United States) you need to go elsewhere now, this blog is not intended for you.

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Reactive forces do not triumph by overpowering or outnumbering…[they] simply separate active forces from what they can do.

Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy (via aspbergguerre)

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I think our materialism is often totally disconnected from the idea that aesthetics are crucial to our abilitity to live humanely in the world. To be able to recognize and know beauty, to be able to be lifted up by it, to be able to choose the objects in your surroundings…I’ve always been interested in Buddhist room arrangment: how do we place something in our house so that we can be made more fully human by glancing at it, or by interacting with it? And there’s so little of that in our culture.

bell hooks, Angry Women interview, Re/Search #13 (via organization)

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You’ve got to create the structures consistent with what your temperament needs to be.

Warren Buffett

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You guys know about vampires? You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. And growing up, I felt like a monster in some ways. I didn’t see myself reflected at all. I was like, ‘Yo, is something wrong with me? That the whole society seems to think that people like me don’t exist?’ And part of what inspired me, was this deep desire that before I died, I would make a couple of mirrors. That I would make some mirrors so that kids like me might seem themselves reflected back and might not feel so monstrous for it.

Junot Diaz (via toothachesampersandbookbinders)

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King Tubby - Take Five

r.i.p. dave brubeck

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I read books, but I don’t finish them. Let’s stop pretending. My reading and the wobbly tower of ideas built alongside and atop it is not a street, a line, it’s a topology, a crystal growing in space, layering the insides of the seizure and projecting into it. It is counterproductive to suggest otherwise.

No Dads, No Filters | booktwo.org

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Edgar Arceneaux, "My Father Jim", 2010

Sugar crystals grown on books

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We are led to believe that problems are given ready-made, and that they disappear in the responses or the solution … We are led to believe that the activity of thinking, along with truth and falsehood in relation to that activity, begins only with the search for solutions, that both of these concern only solutions. This belief probably has the same origin as the other postulates of the dogmatic image: puerile examples taken out of context and arbitrarily erected into models. According to this infantile prejudice, the master sets a problem, our task is to solve it, and the result is accredited true or false by a powerful authority. It is also a social prejudice with the visible interest of maintaining us in an infantile state, which calls upon us to solve problems that come from elsewhere, consoling or distracting us by telling us that we have won simply by being able to respond.

Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (via neutralnatura)

The clearest, most succinct, immediately applicable quote from Deleuze that I have ever read.

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My best teachers didn’t try to approach/set problems in the fashion of trying to keep me infantile. However I think many students prefer that mode. The student, and often administrative expectation to set up classes that way is a source of endless frustration for me.

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The American terrorbird by ~tuomaskoivurinne

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Baba-Tagwa  Abelam Peoples   Papua New Guinea  Geo Magazine 1983  Diane Losche